04 FEB 2026
David shipped: Launched signup competition leaderboard on university app home page
David shipped a school leaderboard to Kerra's university home page showing the top schools by signup count, with the user's own school pinned regardless of rank, to drive viral referral competition.
Kerra was running a signup competition: a prize for a random user from whichever school had the most signups. David specified the leaderboard UI:
we are running a signup competition wherein we giving away a prize to a random user from the most signed up school on leaderboard should only show the top 10 schools (+ the user's school along w the position their school is in the global ranking eg 48th) at any one time with the number of users from each school
When the initial implementation placed the leaderboard in the signup flow, David caught the mistake and corrected it:
wait, the leaderboard isnt meant to be in signup flow. remove everything you did. its meant to be on THE UNIVERSITY APP HOME PAGE WHEN THE USER IS LOGGED IN, SHOWN JUST BELOW THE "GOOD MORNING, DAVID" PART
After the corrected placement, David compressed the space it occupied:
the leaderboard on the home page of the uni app shouldnt take up too much space. have you just plopped in the one that you designed during signup?
show the top 5 + the users school, with the rest hidden by a see more dropdown the user can click